mahjong

mahjong
mah·jong also mah·jongg (mäʹzhŏngʹ, -zhôngʹ) n.
A game of Chinese origin usually played by four persons with tiles resembling dominoes and bearing various designs, which are drawn and discarded until one player wins with a hand of four combinations of three tiles each and a pair of matching tiles.
  [Chinese (Mandarin) má jiàng: , spotted + jiàng, main piece in Chinese chess.]

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